SCOOP: Elections Ontario drops 2022 post-mortem

Also: Insiders dish on Hunter's bid (and who defected from Bailao's camp), McCrimmon's in, Bains bails, Mantha benched, Jama's debate debut, Kerzner's bail push, Ford's beef with Guilbeault and more

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First in Observer — 2022 POST-MORTEM — Beef up candidate nomination rules. Penalize contestants for filing campaign receipts late. Black out polling. Make political parties subject to privacy laws. Review the riding boundaries map already.

That’s the upshot from Chief Electoral Officer GREG ESSENSA’s 2022 election debrief report, which hit…